How Minerals Form 4.2

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Vocabulary:

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Solution: a mixture in which one substance dissolves in another.
Vein: a narrow channel or slab of a mineral that is much different from the surrounding rock.

Outline:

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• How minerals form
  • hardest know substance- diamond
• Process that forms minerals
  • minerals form in 2 ways
  • 1, crystallization - melted materials
  • 2, crystallization - dissolved materials
• Minerals from magma
  • minerals form as magma cools inside crust
• Minerals from hot water solutions
  • solution
  • vein
• Minerals formed by evaporation
  • minerals form when solutions evaporate
• Where minerals are found
  • Earth's crust- made up of rock-forming minerals

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